Why have a Fourth of July weekend festival that celebrates both cars and airplanes? <\/p>\n
Ask Kim Fisher that, and shell look at you like youre a slow child. <\/p>\n
Its part of the Freedom Fair, right? she says. Theres freedom in both -- the freedom to fly, the freedom to drive. <\/p>\n
Thats the essential premise of Wings & Wheels, Pierce Countys annual celebration of fast machines, held at and above the Tacoma Narrows Airport. <\/p>\n
Wings & Wheels is a companion festival to the July 4 Freedom Fair along Ruston Way, and it features not only aerial acrobatics but also buffed up vintage cars and pickup trucks. <\/p>\n
Fisher, who lives in Spanaway, is okay with the airplanes, but she thinks of them mostly as a sideshow at Wings & Wheels. <\/p>\n
She barely notices the Ace Maker T-33 Shooting Star, the Cobra helicopter and the P-51D Mustang. <\/p>\n
Her passion is big Dodge muscle cars, especially her husbands 1966 Polara. Its a smooth ride but still muscular, she said. It has power. <\/p>\n
Theres nothing like the roar of the engine of a Mopar, she said. Theres really nothing else like it. <\/p>\n
(For the uninitiated, Mopar translates roughly to Chrysler.) <\/p>\n
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